UK Meal Planner & Grocery Budget Spreadsheet | Auto Shopping List, Recipe Cost per Portion, Pantry & Freezer | Excel, Google Sheets

Plan the week's meals and the shopping list writes itself. Ingredients are added up, anything already in your cupboard comes off, and the list is sorted by aisle and priced against your food budget. Includes recipe cost per portion, a pantry and freezer tracker with use-by alerts, monthly spend by supermarket, and a 10-page printable.

Food is one of the biggest bills you can actually control. This spreadsheet helps you plan meals around what you've already got, buy only what you need and see where the money goes, shop by shop. Made for UK households, in £, with UK supermarkets built in.

WHAT'S INSIDE THE SPREADSHEET (10 TABS)

- Meal Plan: breakfast, lunch, dinner and a snack for each day from drop-downs; cost per day, week total, cost per person, and shopping estimate vs weekly food budget.

- Shopping List (automatic): every ingredient from the week's recipes, added up across meals, minus your pantry stock, rounded to whole packs, sorted by aisle, with estimated cost and usual shop.

- Recipes: a bank of up to 100 recipes with cost per portion, including 15 starter UK family recipes (spaghetti bolognese, chilli, chicken curry, sausage & mash, lentil dhal, fish & chips and more).

- Recipe Ingredients: what goes in each recipe, with checks that flag missing ingredients or amounts.

- Ingredients: your price list (44 everyday items to start) with pack size, pack price, aisle and usual shop.

- Pantry & Freezer: cupboard, fridge and freezer stock with use-by dates; flags Use soon, Past date or Frozen 3+ months.

- Spend Log: every grocery shop from the receipt.

- Spend by Shop: monthly spend at Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, Aldi, Lidl, Morrisons, Co-op, M&S, Waitrose, Iceland, Ocado and Other vs your monthly budget, with 2 charts.

- Cheap Meals: 26 budget meal ideas with rough cost per portion, UK money-saving tips and store-cupboard staples.

- Setup: household size, monthly budget, editable shop, aisle and unit lists.

THE 10-PAGE A4 PRINTABLE: weekly meal planner · dinners + shopping list · shopping list by aisle · cupboard inventory · fridge & freezer inventory · recipe cards with cost per portion · grocery spend tracker by shop · 26 cheap meal ideas.

WHAT'S INCLUDED: 1) UK_Meal_Planner_Grocery_Budget.xlsx (your file; ingredients and starter recipes are listed without prices so you add your own shop's prices); 2) UK_Meal_Planner_Grocery_Budget_EXAMPLE.xlsx (made-up sample data and example prices for a fictional family of four); 3) UK_Meal_Planner_Grocery_Budget_Printable.pdf (10-page A4 printable).

Works with Google Sheets (free, and on your phone in the shop) and Microsoft Excel 2010+, Excel for Mac and Excel for the web. No macros, no add-ons and no subscription. Instant digital download. Nothing is posted.

PLEASE READ BEFORE BUYING: Prices aren't live; you enter prices from your receipts or the supermarket's website, and the example prices are illustrative only. It doesn't connect to any supermarket. The shopping list matches ingredients by name and unit, so pick them from the drop-downs; it handles up to 80 different items a week. Cheap-meal costs are a rough guide. No calorie or nutrition tracking; this is not nutritional, medical or financial advice. Check allergens yourself. Google Sheets drops Excel's sheet protection, so take care not to type over the white formula cells.